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What is Microsoft Teams?

Teams is a new Microsoft platform, designed to be a collaboration space for colleagues. Teams allows you to:

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This guide will introduce you to three key parts of Microsoft Teams:

  • Teams

  • Chat

  • Calendar

Teams

Teams is where you are likely to spend most of your time. Everything here is broken down into Teams, which each have there own Channels, which each have there own Tabs.

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Info

Here's some guides from Microsoft on Teams:

Creating channels and teams: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/get-started-with-teams-create-your-first-teams-and-channels

Using and adding Tabs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/built-in-custom-tabs

Collaborating on Files: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/collaborate-on-files-in-microsoft-teams-9b200289-dbac-4823-85bd-628a5c7bb0ae

 

Chat

Chat is a place where you can quickly contact people one-on-one or in a small group. All of you recent chats are saved and displayed on the left hand side.

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Here’s some guides from Microsoft on Chat:

Tips for Chat: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/six-things-to-know-about-chat-in-microsoft-teams-88ed0a06-6b59-43a3-8cf7-40c01f2f92f2

How to start a Chat: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/start-a-chat-in-teams-0c71b32b-c050-4930-a887-5afbe742b3d8

Start a call from Chat: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/start-a-call-from-a-chat-in-teams-f5138c9d-df4c-43d8-9cf6-53400c1a7798?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

Share screen from Chat: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/share-your-screen-in-a-chat-in-teams-2de1c624-7fbe-4b0a-99f2-33385e7d3f18

Calendar

The Teams Calendar is synchronised with your Outlook Calendar.  You can create a new meeting here by click the “New Meeting” button.

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